Tim Bromund

Digitroll, I'm sorry but the only refund policy is if the class itself had to be cancelled. Tim Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Niagara Falls, NY. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Both the LOTSA Marketplace and the big show are coming together nicely. Our room is basically full and the main floor is filling out with a great group of Exhibitors. The Event Center is currently revamping their website and should be in place shortly. I'll post when it is back up with a link. There are lots of good things happening throughout the 3 days of the show and I think everyone will be pleased with it this year. Tim

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Happy Birthday Bob!!!! Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Really, I've got a couple Okumas and used other ones on other peoples boats, but I've really never cared for how they feel. Daiwas have always just felt much more solid to me. To each his own I guess.

Interesting. I've been running my wire divers on Daiwa Sg47 LCA's for 15 years now and never once had that happen. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Actually gel coating isn't needed, nor is it waterproof. That's why you have to epoxy barrier coat a hull if you keep it in a slip, because moisture will seep through gel coat., Gel coating the stringers is really more cosmetic than functional. But yes, the more I got into the project, the more I wanted to track the guy down and beat him with the claw end of a 24 oz framing hammer, though I suppose that would be considered premeditated murder.

Greg, Wood is fine as long as it is prepared and the job done properly. With 3 good coats of epoxy on the wood before they get glassed, the wood should never rot, plus really, the way it is supposed to be done, the material is secondary, there should be multiple layers of fully saturated/wetted out fiberglass fabric completely covering the wood and tabbed into the hull, the layers of epoxy saturated and cured fiberglass skin is really what forms the structural element of the stringer. In reality, the wood is little more than a mold to form the fiberglass stringer around. Obviously that wasn't done here.

Thanks Les. At least this past season wasn't a bad one to not be in the water. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Yes, I saw the boat when it was a bare hull. He barely epoxied any of the wood and didn't glass it at all othe than where it was tabbed down to the hull. Even there he did a half assed job of it the tabbing peeled right off with the wood as I was ripping the bad stringers out. He also didn't cut any limber holes in the stringers or floors ( the cross pieces between the stringers) so any water that got in, had no way to drain out to the low point of the bilge. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

1986 24' Thompson Hardtop

Greg, maybe, maybe not. Last year I started noticing that the deck around the engine compartment was getting soft, so this spring I figured I'd cut that out and replace it before the season got underway, no big deal. When I cut the first section of deck out I discovered rotten stringers again. I say again, because I had it completely rebuilt from the cabin bulkhead back in 2003, new transom, stringers, motor bunks and floor/deck, so I was more than a little shocked at the condition of the stringers after only 10 seasons. Needless to say, FishStyx never saw the water this year. I already paid more than the boat was worth to have it rebuilt once, I wasn't willing to do it a second time, so I worked on redoing it myself this year. This was the absolute worst spring/summer imaginable for boat building with the near constant rain. I suspended the rebuild earlier this fall when I noticed that thanks to the weather, the boat had sat on the trailer so long with the structure removed that the fiberglass hull started to sag. I was ready to junk the boat at that point. I had a surveyor look at it and in his opinion it is repairable, but I'll have to get it off the trailer and onto boat stands where I can get the hull properly supported and let the sagging fiberglass get back where it belongs, then I can glass in the new stringers. So, I put it away for the winter and I'll give it another shot in the spring and hope for better weather. Anyone in the Buffalo Area looking for a Boat Repair Shop.....DO NOT TAKE IT TO MARINE GELCOAT SERVICES The half-assed job he did on the rebuild was pathetic. Tim

I had one from 1998 til 2010 or 2011 when I retired it for my current Raymarine. Good unit but old, outdated technology. Plotter shows heading and tracks, but has no chart capability. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

No, but it will probably break. I've had 4 fish eagle II rods of various sizes and actions over the years and all 4 of them broke, so I gave up on them. Never broke any other rods in my life other than the one I closed a car door on, never while fishing. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Bout time you realized that Chad Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Update on the Sunday EXPO/Marketplace. Everything is coming together nicely, we have the entire Ballroom this year instead of half of it like we had last year. This allowed us to both make the booth areas larger and spread things out so it won't be as tight and congested as last year, and we were able to increase the number of tables. available. We are getting close to selling out all of the available booths. I have the listing of Exhibitors updated on the LOTSA Website so you can see who will be there so far. http://www.lotsa.org/2015_EXPO_PARTICIPANTS.htm In addition to our all day Salmon School on Saturday, there will be 100 shorter fishing seminars on a variety of topics throughout the 3 days of the Greater Niagara Fishing and Outdoor Expo. This is shaping up to be a great weekend, lets hope the weather is a little more hospitable than it was last year. Tim

Hi Mark, I should get to it this evening. I just worked back to back 14 hr days Wednesday and Thursday and haven't had a chance to process any new registrations for the past couple days. Thanks and we'll see you at the School. Tim

caught many a king over the years at night on a 3/4 and 1 oz green glow Kroc off the Olcott West Pier. Just slowly reeling fast enough to keep it off the bottom.